Tom Bennett

You may never have heard of Jimmy Donaldson, but if you have unsupervised children they almost certainly have. He’s a billionaire YouTuber who specialises in inane viral challenge videos with eye-popping prizes. He has 468 million subscribers. Easily-pleased children love him like they love cans of Monster. His alias is MrBeast which, if Dan Brown were writing an eschatological thriller, would seem a little too on the nose. But Donaldson has drawn fire from a constituency normally unbothered by his risible online capering: teachers. Easily-pleased children love MrBeast like they love cans of Monster Ironically it happened because of a recent viral interview clip where he railed against modern schooling with the confidence of a man who just watched half a TED talk at 3am.

London’s schools are about to become less safe. The city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has decided to appoint Maureen McKenna to join its violence reduction unit (VRU), with a view to reducing crime by ‘driving down exclusions in schools’ while ‘increasing a sense of students’ belonging’. The VRU has equally noble aims: ‘we believe violence is preventable, not inevitable’, they state. Lib Peck, its director, launched a scheme last year to reduce knife crime by preventing some of the 900 school exclusions a year across London. Glasgow, it was claimed, had seen a 48 per cent reduction in violence across the city since it also decided to reduce exclusions, to almost zero. The person behind this miracle? Maureen McKenna.